Thank God It's Friday - Tears

I am the guest host for TGIF this week and the chosen theme is tears.

Here is my sample for your inspiration.

Credit to Thanx at Stockxchnge and Irene Alexeeva. Other bits and pieces are my own.

Thank you for looking.

Theme Thursday - 4 x 4

For Theme Thursday's 4 x 4 challenge.

Credit to BeckyF (Flickr free to use) for the background. The image of Marilyn is Public Domain.

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Three Muses - Challenge 8 - Inspirational People

Marie is hosting the theme at the Three Muses this week and she has chosen Inspirational People. Thanks Marie.

Well I think you may have guessed that my inspirational person was Salvador Dali.

Credit to Bowling Robot and Artsyfartsyqueen (both from Flickr), Clix from Stockxchnge and Irene Alexeeva. Other bits and pieces are my own.

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TGIF - Words

This week we have words at TGIF. So here are some words ... literally.

Credit to Lula Fernay for the jar and Numbumm for the alpha and dragon fly.

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Sunday Postcard Art - Fashion

Mabel prided herself on her fashion sense for hats.

Credit to Takeabreak, WaterLO Project and Madam Mim. The hats were Googled.

Fonts : Aardvark, Borneo and Conquistadorman.

Thanks Marie for a great theme.

TFL

Digital Art Quirks - Fresco

Created for Stock Photo 79 at Digital Art Quirks.

Credit to CBirrell from Stockxchnge for the background overlaid with two public domain images provided by June at ArtFreebies.

Thanks for looking.

Three Muses - Challenge 7 - Incredible Journey

Well it's my turn to host the Three Muses challenge this week, and I chose the theme of an Incredible Journey.

I hope you will agree that Alice's journey was, well, incredible, so here she is falling down the rabbit hole.

Credit to Artsyfartsyqueen, Irene Alexeeva, Effies Blog and also Andthenpatterns and Free Printables (both free to use at Flickr).

The font is Tom's New Roman Handwriting.

Thanks so much for looking.

So Artful Challenge - Angel Tears

The theme at So Artful this week is Angel Tears and this is me experimenting with Photoshop Styles.

Credit to Numbumm for the frame, the Angel was Googled, the tears are mine and the glass effect over the angel is me playing with more styles.

Thanks for looking.

Sunday Postcard Art - Vintage Children

Even as a child Mabel knew she was special.

Thanks Gayle for a super challenge.

Credit to Spark Your Imagination for the child, the background is by the WaterLO Project with an overlay of my own.

Fonts are Trajon Pro, and Tom's Handwriting.

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Thank God It's Friday - A Piece of Heaven

Bev is hosting the TGIF challenge this week and her theme is A Piece of Heaven. This is what came to my mind.

Credit to Irene Alexeeva for the backgrounds and to commons.wikimedia.com for the apple image (in the public domain).

Collage Play With Crowabout - Oooops

It's week 44 of Nancy's Collage Play with Crowabout challenge and this is my interpretation.

Credit to Nancy Baumiller aka Crowabout.

Font : Tom's Handwriting.

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THREE MUSES CHALLENGE 6 - WORD SALAD

Bev chose Word Salad for the theme of our sixth challenge across at the Three Muses this week and I had loads of fun creating this 'flight' of fancy.

Credit to Irene Alexeeva for the background and the ladder, and Suzee Que for the lovely man.

The fonts used were Trajon Pro, Tweed and Swinger Casual.

It seems all you have to do is Believe!

Thanks Bev.

Marion's Annual ATC Challege - Zetti

Here is the final of my three contributions to Marion's annual challenge.

Credit to Artsyfartsyqueen, Tammara at Pixel Music and a few bits and pieces from me.

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Saturday So Artful

June provided us with yet another beautiful background to work with and this is what I created.

Credit to June at So Artful challenges and to Suzee Que.

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Marion's Annual ATC Challenge - Zetti

Here is my second ATC for Marion's Annual ATC challenge. This one is called, not surprisingly, It's Raining.

Credit to Irene Alexeeva, Artsyfartsyqueen, Tammara at Pixel Music, Kubivet and some bits and pieces from me.

Sunday Postcard Art - Fabric

It's fabric this week at the Sunday Postcard Art challenge and of course this is my entry.

Credit to Playing with brushes for the background and Digiscrapbooking for the flowers and the butterfly.

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Thank God It's Friday - Red Flower

Red flowers this week at TGIF, so here's mine. :O)

Credit to the talented ladies at the WaterLO project.

Thanks for looking.

Marion's Annual ATC Challenge

Marion from bockel24 blogspot is hosting her annual ATC Swap Challenge, which this year is Zetti, and this is the first of three from me.

Credit to Artsyfartsyqueen, Irene Alexeeva, Tammara at Pixel Music and some bits and pieces of my own. Most everything has been greatly altered.

Marion this one will be on it's way to you by the middle of next week.

TFL

Mandrake Over Trinidad

I created this for the Quirkle challenge at Digital Art Quirks where this week Evelyn challenged us to use a :

mandrake template
crown
full moon.

Credit to humholdthead for the wonderful photo of Full moon over Trinidad {Creative Commons - Flickr}, also to Tammara at Pixel Music for the crown and Victoria Payne for the mandrake template, both the crown and and mandrake were greatly altered.

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Three Muses Challenge 5 - Surreal

Across at the Three Muses Challenge Marie is hosting the challenge this week and has chosen Surreal as her theme.

Yaay I just love this theme, my brain being a teeeeny bit on a surreal wave length most of the time as you can probably see from my entry.

Thanks Marie for a wonderful challenge theme.

Credit to Vintage Printables and Irene Alexeeva for suffering me to tweak their stuff enough to create something unusual in an unexpected place. :O)

Works of Art ATC Challenge - Michael Parkes Inspired

I created this for this week's Works of Art ATC challenge. Artsyfartsyqueen challenged us to take Michael Parkes as our inspiration.

Credit to Irene Alexeeva and Artsyfartsyqueen for the background, circle and face. The theatre mask is my own.

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Saturday So Artful Challenge - Gypsy

Gypsy is the theme for this week at So Artful Challenge.

Thank you to June for the Gypsy, now much altered.

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Happy Holidays

Credit to Clearly Vintage for Mr and Mrs President, Fantacy provided the fireworks, MeiTeng from Stockxchnge the bird and the background is a blend of my own.

Thanks for looking.

Three Muses Challenge 4 - Up, Up and Away

It's my turn to host the Three Muses challenge this week and I have chosen the theme of Up, Up and Away.

As soon as I thought about this theme I realised for me it meant vintage bicycles travelling through the sky so here we go.

Credit goes to Irene Alexeeva, Artsyfartsyqueen, Suzee Que and Vintage Printables (free to use at Flickr).

Thanks for looking.

Gothic Arches - Wings

Thank you to Gothic Arches for the lovely theme of wings this week.

Credit to Irene Alexeeva for both backgrounds, the crown, the ladder and the wings. Artsyfartsyqueen for the girl's face, Takeabreak for the girl's body. The wellies cyber surfed and then overpainted by me. Gothic arch border and girl's dress by me.

Thanks for looking.

Thank God It's Friday - Alphabet

The theme is alphabet this week at TGIF and this is what came into my mind. So here were are.

Credit to PDaily via Photoshop Creative for the background paper, and to ThePinktoque for the keyboard keys.

Thanks for looking.

Collage Play With Crowabout - Week 41

My entry for the Crowabout Challenge.

Thanks to Nancy for the collage sheet.

Font is Minion Pro.

Thanks for looking.

So Artful Challenge - Background

This is my entry for June's So Artful background challenge.

Both the lovely background and the image of the lady are courtesy of June at ArtFreebies.

Thanks for looking.

Three Muses Challenge 3 - Wild Things

Bev is the host for the Three Muses this week and she's chosen Wild Things as the theme.

Mabel looks and dresses as a lady, but oh dear me, she has such a wild streak, just look at the thoughts going on in her head as she poses for the photographer.

Credit to Valerie Brincheck, Suzee Que and Artsyfartsyqueen.

The font is Prissy Frat Boy.

Thanks for looking.

Theme Thursday - Beauty

Indybev is hosting the Theme Thursday challenge this week and her chosen theme is Beauty. Here is a very beautiful iconic woman who just says Beauty to me.

Thanks for the challenge Bev.

Credit to Marsha at Tumblefish Studios for the background image.

The finish on this is a posterize filter.

Thanks for looking.

Two For Tuesday Challenge Two

June has a new challenge out called Two For Tuesday and this is week two.

The two images she gave were both black and white and I thought they should probably stay that way ....... well possibly with a dash of red. So here we go.

Credit to June for the images and the font is Minion Pro.

Thanks for looking.

Sunday Postcard Art - Fathers

This is my Dad in 1926, so full of light and hope. I wonder what or who he was looking at as this photograph was taken?

I lost my Dad 11 years ago just as he was learning about computers. I wonder what he would have thought if he had known that just a few years later he would be the centre of attention and possibly being viewed across at least three contents on Father's Day?

I miss him lots.

Credit to Wil for the background from last week's Art Creation Friday, and KlarissaH for the frame (both much altered). The photos of Dad is my own.

Font is Journal Handwriting.

Thanks for looking.

Thank God It's Friday - Secrets

Marie is hosting the Thank God It's Friday challenge this week and her theme is Secrets. Thanks Marie I had so much fun creating this.

Credit to Irene Alexeeva.

Font is Skia

Thanks for looking.

Art Creations Friday - Week 30

Wil has provided us with a lovely image this week to use in our artwork.

I teamed this with an image of Marilyn Munroe to create this for the challenge.

Thank you for looking.








Wil's original canvas.

Three Muses Challenge 2 - Doors

I hope this year will be a better Summer in the UK than the previous two where it has rained. However, as nothing can be guaranteed I've taken the liberty of building a garden shed where sun, sea, sand and lots of fun can be taken for granted. This is my Doors creation.

Credit to Sailor and Lula for the beach elements and Kubivet for the bathing beauties. The garden shed was cyber surfed.

Thanks for looking.

Altered Artspiration ATC Swap Challenge

Tangie Baxter's Altered Artspiration Challenge this week is an Artist's Choice ATC.

Here's mine.

Credit to Artsyfartsyqueen for the people, the rose was cyber surfed and the background is one of my own.

Fonts : Ransom and Prissy Frat Boy

Thank you for looking

Quirkle 93 - A Sad Story

It's my turn to host the Quirkle at Digital Art Quirks this week and I asked participants to use the following in their artwork :

a bottle or jar
a flower
plenty of grunge.

This is what I came up with.

Credit to Gouzinette and Akiloune for the background and graffiti, to Lulafernay for the glass jar, and to the talented designers of the WaterLo Project for the flower.

Thank you for looking.

Famous Works Of Art Challenge - Weird World Of Investments

I created this for Artsy Fartsy Queen's Famous Works of Art Challenge which I really enjoyed doing.

Credit to s11ver for the clown, and Mona's hat and uniform. To Fidgetrainbowtree for the boy, Artsyfartsyqueen for the stripey legs, to Numbum for the industrial flower. Mona is from Wikepedia and everything else is from the very talented Irene Alexeeva from a number of her kits.

Thanks for looking.

Collage Play With Crowabout - Week 39

I had so much fun with this one this week. As always the elements are courtesy of Nancy Baumiller aka Crowabout.

Fonts used : Silom and Tom's Handwriting.

Thanks for looking.

Eeek A Cat! - Quirkle 92

Jayne hosted the Quirkle this week at Digital Art Quirks and she challenged us to use : a bird, the colour red, and a star in our artwork.

Here is what came to mind.

Credit to Numbum for the bird, the star and the alpha, to Irene Alexeeva for the checkered background and the cat and to JulieMarie at her blogspot for the blended backgrounds.

Thank you for looking.

Three Mues - Mona Lisa

You can see this across at our new challenge blog the Three Muses . It might not surprise you to know that the theme for our first week is Mona Lisa.

This was the sample for inspiration this week, and I just wanted to give credit where credit is due so thank you to Irene Alexeeva for the background, frame, hat, cravat and money off voucher and to Liana at her Paperdoll blog for the wonderful outfit that Mona chose to wear. All other bits and pieces are my own.

Thank you so much to those who have joined in the challenge so far. The response has been overwhelmingly good.

Ozstuff, Indybev and Taluula (me) would love you all to come and join in the fun.

If you are too busy to join in this week's fun don't worry, Ozstuff will be hosting the next challenge and her theme will be Doors.

As always thanks for looking.

PSSST. THE SECRET'S OUT

There's a brand new blog, the Three Muses, where each Wednesday Taluula, Ozstuff or Indybev will be challenging you to create something inspired and interesting.

We know that each of you will have a preferred artistic medium so whether you like to work with paper or paint, fabric or digital we'd love you to join in. After all, part of the fun is to see the diverse interpretations on a theme. So come and join in the fun (a little early this first week) at the Three Muses

PSSST. HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS?

Sunday Postcard Art - Vintage Bathing Beauties

This bathing beauty seems to have found the ideal tropical paradise.

Credit to Suzee Que for the bathing beauty and the Sailor and Lula for the tropical paradise.

Thank you for looking.

Thank God It's Friday - Dreams

I created this using the wonderful images at Vintage Printables.

Thank you for looking.

Make a Moo Or Two - Alphabet

Credit to Spotted Sparrow for the wonderful graphics for me to play with.

Thank you for looking.

Theme Thursday - Harold's Hat

The theme being hats this week at Theme Thursday reminded me of Harold who has an amazing taste in hats.

Credit to Vintage Printables for Harold, Madam Mim for the background and Valerie Brincheck for the Clown hat.

The font is Prissy Frat Boy.

Thank you for looking.